The sophomore jinx? No, not for this band. Soundgarden’s second album, Louder Than Love is a testament to their domination over pretenders at the time. And one song says it better than any: Big Dumb Sex. The title alone is intriguing enough that it warrants a listen.
There are some …

After the very successful album War, released in 1983, U2 have managed to release another great record so quickly afterwards. I think that this album, The Unforgettable Fire was an album which escalated their skill and level as musicians. I think that this 1984 album demonstrated how much and …

Aaron Lewis is the lead singer and acoustic guitar player of the band known as Staind. I have seen Aaron Lewis Live in concert, and I can say that he is an absolute Genius when it comes to music. His writing skills are amazing, and he actually told us …

At first, I was going to write a bad review for Placebo’s new track “Battle For the Sun” off the album of the same name. Then I took a chance to hear it for a second time. It wasn’t as bad as the first time I’d heard it when I …

I stumbled upon this amazing album recently. About 3 months ago I was just searching youtube and came across, You Only Get What You Give. That was their biggest hit and is an amazing song. The band was short lived due to Gregg Alexander not liking the high life, …

When the movie, Alvin and the Chipmunks came out in cinemas, it was closely followed by a CD which features remakes of quite a few songs and a few originals. One of my favourites from this CD is called “How We Roll.”
This song starts off and keeps a dancey …

I was prepared to dislike the new CD my husband came home with the other day. I take pride in believing that I have much better tastes in music than he does, and while I know little about Iggy Pop’s recent work, I was skeptical about the new CD, …

Artist: Beyonce
Video: “Ring The Alarm”
Album: B-Day
Label: Columbia
Director: Sophie Muller
Uh-oh, somebody ticked Beyonce off. “Ring The Alarm” is the second single and music video from Beyonce’s second album titled “B-Day”, following the previous debut single “Deja Vu”. “Ring The Alarm” depicts a threatened Beyonce Knowles who is upset about her …

Hoobastank’s first album is simply called Hoobastank. It is all upbeat rock music, with clear vocals, not yelling. The lyrics are completely clean. I like that it is just a rock band most of the time, not a synthesized orchestra (although this does happen in a …

Aaliyah ft. Missy Elliot and Timbaland
“Hot Like Fire”
One In A Million
Blackground/Atlantic
Director: Lance “Un” Rivera
Aaliyah follows up “4 Page Letter” with “Hot Like Fire” and, man, I will tell you right now, I have never ever seen so much red and…well… fire ever before in a video than this one …

Matthew Good’s latest release was released on October 6th 2009, and is called Vancouver. This release is homage to his life growing up in BC. The tracks are deep with profound and clever lyrics much like the rest of his work. There is
not a song on the …

This very first Cranberries album was somehow, never my favourite. Maybe the raw simplicity, or maybe the short songs, I couldn’t appreciate its beauty. Of course, only until, you actually experience all those things Dolores O’riordan writes and sings about, only then, can you grasp the essence of this …

Perversions Of Pain is a song by Slayer which appears on their record Diabolus In Musica. The track starts off with a fairly moderate tempo with chords which have a dissonant sound to them before the main riff of the song comes in along with the pounding drum rhythm. …

Closer is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their album The Downward Spiral. The track opens up with a synthesizer rhythm which is repeated for multiple times before Reznor comes in with the vocals in a pretty unique manner, it’s difficult to describe but there’s a …

Greyhoundredux is a song by MGMT which appears on their first record, Climbing To New Lows. What’s interesting about Greyhoundredux is that it’s an instrumental track which surprised me to be honest. I mentioned in my review of Honey Bunny that you really can’t expect a young new band …

“Gonna See My Friend” is the opening track on Pearl Jam’s album “Backspacer”. Like the album itself, the song is relatively short. The entire album was inspired by pop and new wave music. I can sort of see that influence in this song, it’s rather catchy but I would …

This was Ghost Peeps first album - one maybe two people heard. Oh and myself. The production quality is not as good as it could be but that only adds to some of the charm. This 8 song set only last 19 minutes and in that time we hear …

Green Finch and Linnet bird is a wonderful song from the musical Sweeney Todd. It also is on the soundtrack of the movie Sweeney Todd. The song is operatic, and has sweeping notes and vocals as the singer —˜s voice climbs up and down the musical scale. …

Overview —“ Nimrod, Green Day’s fifth album is an album which I personally feel takes them backwards rather than forwards. I’ll say that I thought both Dookie and Insomniac were very good albums with very little filler on them, this album is a bit different. To be fair, there’s …

Head Like A Hole is a song by Nine Inch Nails which appears on their debut album, Pretty Hate Machine. The track opens up with some industrial sound effects before a drum pattern comes in which gives the song a solid rhythm. Soon enough a synthesizer comes in over …

Every Planet We Reach Is Dead is a song by The Gorillaz which appears on their album Demon Days. The track opens up with a rhythm that I think could best described as fairly lazy. I also do not mean to use this term in a negative connotation here, …

This is a live album by Korn released in 2006, compiling odds and ends of material you are likely to already own. Most of these songs are from the special edition of Greatest Hits Vol.1, the hidden track Earache My Eye is the hidden track from follow the leader, …

Not Trying To Be Awkward is a song by Sledding With Tigers and is the second track on their debut album, No Randy No. Set at a more relaxed tempo and pace than the preceding song on the record, Not Trying To Be Awkward focuses the chorus of voices …

Ciara ft. Lil’ Jon
“That’s Right”
Ciara: The Evolution
LaFace Records
Director: The Fat Cats
Ciara brings us yet another song about female empowerment, this one being about a woman telling her boyfriend that she doesn’t want to let him ruin her fun in exchange for his selfish needs. Boo-hoo. The name of the …

As a big fan of international music, I try to expand my collection every so often with a “big hit” CD that I’ll have hours of enjoyment listening to. It’s a much better experience when I’m able to discover a CD that contains lots of different voices, tons of …

Exploding/Reloading is a track by Scars On Broadway which appears on their self-titled debut record. To recap, the first two songs on this record have been Serious and Funny, the former being quite an aggressive and fast track while the latter being far more melodic and moderately paced. To …

Children Of The Damned is a song by Iron Maiden which appears on their album The Number Of The Beast. Opening up in a very melodic fashion, Children Of The Damned features a nice interplay between a clean guitar pattern mixed with some very nice bass fills from …

I have been a huge Def Leppard fan for forever. So when “Songs From the Sparkle Lounge” came out I knew it would be in my collection soon. It is a fantastic album. Any Def Leppard fan is sure to love it. I aquirred it …

Eleanor Rigby is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Revolver. McCartney takes lead vocals on this track and I’m actually pretty surprised about this because this song always struck me more as a Lennon composition. I say this because Eleanor Rigby is extremely well developed …

I’ll start by saying there are relatively few contemporary artists, emerging in the past few years, that I’ve taken much interest in. By and large, I’m much more inclined to listen to older records and artists than newer ones-which may be odd, since I’m only 25 and the majority …

Before the worldwide madness of EYE OF THE TIGER, Survivor were slowly making their way in the music scene and Premonition is their second album. Though 1981 is actually my birth year, my musical taste is actually quite large and i feel i know these albums just as well …

Aaliyah & DMX
“Come Back In One Piece”
Romeo Must Die: The Album
Blackground/Virgin
“Come Back In One PIece” is another single and video from the soundtrack of the smash hit action/martial arts thriller “Romeo Must Die”. This one features Aaliyah and DMX performing together in an urban setting around Yonkers, New York. …

Plastic Jesus is a song by The Flaming Lips and the ninth song to appear on their release Transmissions From The Satellite Heart. Just as a note from the beginning, this song is a cover rather than an original. Featuring one of the most simplistic sounds throughout the entire …

The Timeless Favorites: Lerner & Loewe CD comes courtesy of Reader’s Digest Music and gives us 20 tracks of famous songs composed by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. These are well known, much beloved songs from the stage and screen.
The journey begins with Robert Peterson’s masterful rendition …

The Fender Frontman is a great amp, and is one of the few things that aren’t crazy expensive that Fender makes that are actually good! I don’t need a lot of special effects, I just need really good gain/ overdrive mode, and this amp really has it! It …

R. Kelly
“You Remind Me of Something”
R.
Jive/Zomba Recordings
R. Kelly kicks off the first single and music video from his second solo effort, the self-titled “R.”. This song is called “You Remind Me of Something” and has probably one of the most memorable music videos from the R&B heartthrob. There’s hummers, …

Between the Buried and Me (BTBAM) is a progressive metalcore band. Yeah that’s right, that —˜shouty angry’ music your dad really hates, but with more spice and flavour. To someone not used to this sort of music I can see it being a challenge to listen to, with dissonance, …

Decades after this song was made, it still sticks in my head. Perhaps I am just a nostalgic fiend for old school rap songs. But I suspect that the millions of Slick Rick fans feel the same way about this song. The song “Hey Young …

Brockhampton isn’t what you would normally expect from a boy band. Before listening, I didn’t know what to expect from the guys, since this was my first time listening to them. I was recently trying to expand the kind of music that I listen to, so I decided that …

In the country that I live in, not many people listen to rock music and heavy metal music. There is a small rock and heavy metal scene here, but most radio stations will rarely play rock music and hard rock music, and none of them have played heavy metal …

Walter’s Walk is a song by Led Zeppelin which appears on their record Coda. The song starts off with a quick blues sounding riff in the right channel from Page as Bonham comes straight down the center with a nice pounding drum rhythm as Plant comes in as well. …

Boy was I excited to hear that Apocalyptica was releasing an original CD with their own song. I first found this out when I was at my friends house and he looked it up on the Internet. I was quite excited. I was so used to this band doing …

I had a chance to listen to the new Jay-Z album which is the Blueprint 3, and it is one of my most favorite music albums of the year. This is Jay-Z’s 10th album and even at almost 40 years old, he is still one of the best rap …

As a fan of most kinds of rock music, I find myself scouring the internet for bands I have never heard of, and songs I have never heard before. Sometimes I will spend hours and hours just looking for new music, and while I find something truly amazing sometimes, …

The Dixi Chicks sing the song “Travelin Soldier”. It is a song about a young man who joins the army at 18 and a girl who thinks she is in love with him. Her friends keep telling her that she is to young for the soldier, but she refuses …

Are You Sure Hank Done It This way is by Waylon Jennings. It seems like he is asking a question about how Hank made it big because he is trying to copy him. I personally don’t think anyone needs to copy how someone else made it to be successful …

This Album from Natalie Merchant had exceeded my expectations - which is not that tough, truth to be told; since Natalie Merchant had been very low-profile for a very long time, and I didn’t expect much from her.
Having said that, whenever a person said that something exceeded their …

A Fine Frenzy is a female vocalist (her real name is Alison Sudol). She hasn’t been very popular on the radio or on MTV or anything, but I really do enjoy her music. I think I first found it because she was one of artists featured on one of …

Even though I am a fan of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and listened to some of their albums as soon as they were released, which was certainly the case with their 2003 album Take Them On, On Your Own, and their 2005 album Howl, I actually missed the release …

The Rolling Stones are old. Some people say they were far too old to be playing at the Super Bowl a few years back. I say leave them alone. They have earned the right to age, they have put in their time as young people, but their music lives …